Society of Friends

DW died of a fever in London, according to early records, not long after her last published appeal to Quakers not to forget their heroic and radical past.

Her death was reported to the Society of Friends in England by James Lancaster , who provided a loving presence for her at the end.

KEI was buried in the churchyard of St Peter's Church, St Mary Bourne, Hampshire. After the funeral, the Society of Friends held a short service at the graveside, at which George, her husband of...

When she was eleven, Elizabeth Knight (later EJ ) began to attend Sibford School at Sibford Ferris in ruralOxfordshire, run by the Friends (Quakers) but open to children of other faiths as well.

At the age of fifteen she ceased regular study, and began reading on her own. She spent much of the time at Friends ' meetings going over passages from Byron , Southey , Moore ...

She later spent the years 1813-16 at a Quaker school at Ackworth.

Her extensive travel during the 1650s (through all the component parts of Britain) was undertaken in the course of witnessing to her Quaker faith. Her ministry extended to distant parts of Britain and later overseas.

Scandal engulfed him in spring 1699, when he was accused of raping and perhaps murdering a young Quaker woman named Sarah Stout . He claimed that the accusation was cynically brought by his political enemies...

When JV began to think about converting to Quakerism, her immediate family opposed it. In the end, however, they all followed her into the Society of Friends . She later wrote that her relationship with...

EJ 's other brother, David Caldicott Heald Jenkins , was eight months old at the time of the British census in 1911. He became a successful solicitor first in Hitchin and then in London. During...

Mary Shackleton married William Leadbeater , who had become a farmer when his joining the Quakers closed to him the career he had intended to pursue.

Anne Downer (later AW ) made her first, brief marriage, when already a Quaker and in her late thirties, to Benjamin Greenwell .

Anne Greenwell made her second marriage, to George Whitehead , a grocer, legal expert, and veteran of prison, about twelve years her junior, who was known for his defences of Friends both in court and...

Wilfrid Meynell was the seventh child of eight in a Quaker family. In 1875 he read a poem by Alice Thompson in the Pall Mall Gazette and told Father Lockhart , a friend, that she...

Her half-brother, another Abraham , who took over the school when their father retired, was a man of deep thought, immense conscientiousness, and oppositional temperament. His pacifist convictions caused him to strike a number of...